Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-541) and index.
Contents:
I. Facilitative payments to salaries -- The old regime: lawful bargaining for public services -- Bargaining outlawed -- A regulatory nightmare: salaries as a remedy for corrupt exchange and official lucre -- A government capable of saying no: salaries as a reaction against customer service -- II. Bounties to salaries -- State and local taxation: the tax ferrets -- Federal taxation: the moiety men -- Criminal prosecution: cash for convictions -- Incarceration: jailors' fees and penitentiary profits -- Naval warfare: prize money and blood money -- Epilogue: American state-building and the critique of bureaucracy.
Series:
Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference.
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